Light Verse Poems | Light Verse Examples

A teenager got stopped for speeding. Said the exasperated trooper aghast: “Didn’t you see the speed limit?” he inquired? “No,” said the teen, “it sped by me too fast.” ...

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A young lady from Shanghai was arrested not knowing why. “Your singing,” officials explained, “too high; neighbors complained.” At once she told the government she had a spheech impediment, and was only practiching to shing but denied she shang high. ...

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Inspired by “Poems and Poets” by Anne Winter “For once in my life, I want to be a poem” — Anne Winter If I were a poem could my poem be a poet? If such could be done who besides me would know it? If my poem—as a poet—wrote something new could I as a poem be the other poem too? Or would I...

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It sounds like a breakfast treat, but be forewarned: it’s not to eat. Your appetite may disagree; so, go ahead, take a bite and see. But my advice, if I were you, is get some jam before you do, or butter, if that’s your preference; it’ll make a big taste difference. And if organic is your latest thing here’s more advice worth hearing:...

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away is an old slogan still believed to this day. But surely a blunder, at the least a mistake given a bite of apple the first woman ate and plunged a promised paradise to doom turning a garden into an emergency room. ...

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The vanity of youth is at it’s height when its weight is carried light. It’s an accidental manifestation of another’s envious estimation. It’s lasting value, less than a mirage, disappears with bitterness into old age. To those who took the lie for truth when told in their vanity of youth must now in beauty’s absence live a lie impossible to forget or forgive. ...

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At a home for the elderly residents look like they might have been there for a century. There’s still hope for involvement if one still has good eyesight, looks, and functional “equipment.” Old age, desire, and strong hormones never sleep, at least not alone....

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Some men betray a basic skill when standing at a urinal. Aiming straight, apparently, doesn’t come easily or naturally – a basic lack of hand and eye coordination, apparently. But then some men don’t make a fuss of splattered shoes and trouser cuffs. ...

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Weathervanes were once practical indicators of matters meteorological – wind speed and direction, notably – found on house and barn roofs mostly. Nowadays of course they’ve rarely seen replaced by weathermen on TV screens. In winds of very high velocity they whirl and blurr to non-identity. And many a mortified pig whirling wildly like a whirligig has had it’s snout rammed...

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I hate to outfox him again but he is sweet and naïve and I am diabolical and competitive...

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Marcel Duchamp (French Dada artist, 1887 - 1968) Marcel Duchamp is most celebrated for a woman rushing down a stairwell naked, a painting critics mocked from the start as degenerate French modern art. Wives sighed relief she’s less than revealing so invited their husbands for a viewing. Duchamp painted her stripped of any garb apropos to the art of the time – avant garde...

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I saw it . . . A golden morning sun, Surfacing the crystalline ocean, Hanging high beyond the foggy horizon, It's my birthday!...

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almonds or arsenic? unsure, he took another sip...

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Look at life as an excursion. Here, you stop, there you learn; there you pick up a wife, then a kid or two. Then you run out of gas. You look back and say: “Damn, how did I go so far on so short a road so fast?”...

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When I don't understand I look to you for words to speak, And every time it brings me to my knees, What I cannot describe yet know inside, Leaving me speechless, making me cry, Do I need an explanation or validation, What if it is just love without expectation, You brought me here in this place, To create that freedom and space, And...

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